The Strangest Man in Mathematics

Paul Erdos was the strangest of them all. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. I highly recommend the book: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman https://a.co/d/0g9MS34n Chapters: 0:00 Strangest Mathematician in the World 0:38 A Child Obsessed With Numbers 1:15 Erdős Discovers Prime Numbers 1:49 Antisemitism in Hungary 2:07 Leaving for America 2:59 The FBI Suspects Erdős 3:17 The Wandering Mathematician 3:53 Ramsey Theory 4:10 The Probabilistic Method 4:32 Helping Young Mathematicians 5:24 His Humanity 5:58 Use of Amphetamines 6:28 The Perfect Death 7:07 AI Solves Erdős Problems 7:39 Improve Your Math Skills: Brilliant Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support Cindy on Patreon!   / newsthink   Sources: The old St. John's Hospital in Budapest: FSZEK Budapest Collection University of Budapest (Eötvös Loránd University) library interior: Thaler, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Erdős with Ronald Graham and his wife Fan Chung Graham: Che Graham, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Erdős with a young Terence Tao: either Billy or Grace Tao, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Lajos Pósa image: The Joy of Thinking Foundation https://en.agondolkodasorome.hu/ Ritalin image: en:User:Sponge, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Ronald Graham portrait: Cheryl Graham, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Institute of Mathematics (Polish Academy of Sciences): Adrian Grycuk, CC BY-SA 3.0 PL via Wikimedia Commons Grave of Erdős: Dr Varga József, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons